"Information Wants to be Free" (fwd)

From: Fred Shapiro (fred.shapiro@yale.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 13:17:13 PST


I would be grateful for any information as to the origins of the slogan
"Information wants to be free." The earliest I find on Nexis is Stewart
Brand in 1984, but an extremely knowledgeable person tells me she thinks
it was around before that.

Fred Shapiro

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro Editor
Associate Librarian for Public Services YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
  and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale University Press,
Yale Law School forthcoming
e-mail: fred.shapiro@yale.edu http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 14 2007 - 20:36:12 PST